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    Summer 1992 CaFD Newsletter

    The Joys of Constructivism: Part 1 - Alan Van Heuvelen 1

    Conceptual Understanding - David P. Maloney 1

    Update: Workshop Physics and Tools for Scientific Thinking Programs - Priscilla Laws 1

    Integrated Computer Tools and Apparatus for Motion Study 2

    Ron Thornton Named 1992 Winner of Smithsonian Award for Education 3

    Workshop Project Report 6

    Fall 91 & 92 Workshop Participant Colleges 8

    The Speed of Sound - Carol Lucey 9

    Doppler Effect Qualitative Reasoning - Conrade Hinds, et al 10

    Capacitor Ranking Task Exercise -Peter Golden 11

    A Friction Cart - Thomas L. O’ Kuma 12

     

    Spring 1993 CaFD Newsletter

    Conceptual Understanding and Problem Solving - David P. Maloney 1

    Student Knowledge Based Physics Education - Robert R. Speers 1

    Constructing Conceptual Models: II - Alan Van Heuvelen 1

    Why Don’t Physics Students Understand Physics - Ron Thornton 3

    New Features in Mac MBL 4.0 Software 8

    New World, Real World College Physics Education-- The Diary of a Revolutionary - Robert R. Speers 10

    MBL in Physics and Learning Styles - J. B. Sharma 13

    Letter From Ron Moore 13

    TYC Physics Workshop Project Report 14

    1992 Summer and Fall Workshop Participant Colleges 15

    Energy Bar Graph Questions 16

     

    Winter 1993/94 CaFD Newsletter

    Real-World, Constructivist Carts for Microcomputer Based Laboratories - Bob Speers 1

    MBL: Ideas That Work - Umesh Pandey 1

    Meaningful-Meaningless Calculations - David Maloney 1

    A Perspective On Science Teaching 1

    Confessions of an IBM (MAC) Motion User - Chuck Hollenbeck 5

    MBL Update 6

    Letter: Ongoing ILI - Oshri Karmon 9

    Some Uses of MacMotion 4.0/ Motion Software the Mechanics Laboratory - Thomas L. O’Kuma 10

    1993 Workshop Participant Colleges 13

    TYC Physics Workshop Project 16

     

    Winter 1994/ 95 CaFD Newsletter

    Other Workshop Curricula - Priscilla Laws 1

    SIP: Special Intensive Program - Oshri Karmon 1

    Developing Conceptual Exercises - David Maloney 1

    Application of MBL to Undergraduate Research&emdash;Nonlinear Oscillation Study - Ting-fang Zheng 9

    Conceptual Exercise/ Overview Case Studies Workshop - Umesh Pandey 11

    Letter on Meaningful- Meaningless Calculations - Stu Leinoff 12

    Kinematics Test - Stu Leinoff 13

    1994 Workshop Participant Colleges 14

    New TYC Physics Workshop 15

    1995 Workshop Schedule 16

     

    Fall 1995 CaFD Newsletter

    Interactive, Conceptually Based Multimedia Instruction for Introductory Mechanics on CD-ROM - Mark Bunge 1

    Preparatory Physics for Scientists and Engineers - Oshri Karmon 1

    Digital Electronic Systems in Introductory Physics - Colin Terry 4

    The CPU Project 5

    Airbags and Physics - Dwain Desbien 6

    News and Comments About MBL - Curtis Hieggelke 7

    Problem Schemata - Ali Yazdi 8

    Tech Physics at Henry Ford Community College - Richard Bailey 9

    CE/ OCS Follow- Up Workshop Conference on Introductory Physics 9

    TYC Physics Workshop Project Update 10

     

    Fall 1996 CaFD Newsletter

    First TYC Introductory Physics Conference Summary&emdash;June 1996 1

    Introductory Physics Reform - Tom O’Kuma 2

    TYC IPC 1 Schedule 4

    IPC 1 Group Projects 4

    A Simple Lenz’s Law Apparatus - Robert Speers 6

    The Visualizer’s Vector Playground 6

    Interactive Lecture Demonstrations - David R. Sokoloff and Ronald K. Thornton 7

    Electrical Concept Inventory (ECI) and Magnetic Concept Inventory (MCI) 8

    Physics, Engineering, and Interactive Television - Aaron Wenger 9

    WP Excel 5 Tools Problem - Priscilla Laws 10

    New BBS and Internet E-mail System 11

    First (’96) TYC IPC Participants 12

    First (’96) TYC IPC Invited Presenters 12

    First (’96) TYC IPC Contributed Presenters 12

    A Tip of the Hat for TYC Physics - John E. Enger 13

    ’97 TYC Physics Workshops/ Conference Schedule 14

     

    Winter 1996 CaFD Newsletter

    A Low&emdash;Tech Modeling&emdash;Centered/ Active Learning Curriculum: Part 1-Dennis Albers 1

    Workshop Physics at Jamestown CC - Marie Plumb 1

    The Development of B.E.T.T.E.R - Judith Tavel 4

    Graphing Data Using Excel 5.0a - K.W. Nicholson 7

    TYC Innovations - John Anthony Splett 8

    Test Results - Mark Bunge 8

    About the TYC Physics Workshop Project - K.W. Nicholson 8

    1996 Two-Year College Physics Workshops 9

    ’95 TYC Physics Workshop Participants Colleges 10

    CCD Grant - Mark Bunge 11

    Publications Available 11

    TYC Physics Workshop Project Update 12

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    Summer 1997 CaFD Newsletter
  • Ranking Tasks Uses and Results - Dwain Desbien 1

    A Modeling & Active Learning Centered Curriculum: Part 2 - Dennis Albers 1

    FCI Results and Comments -Todd Leif 5

    Two Curricula in Transition - David Arnold and David Mills 6

    RT News in Brief 7

    CD News in Brief 8

    Bar Graphs for Ideal Gas Processes - Dave Maloney 9

    MBL News in Brief 12

    Impact of a TYC Workshop -Stuart Loucks 13

    TYC Physics Workshop Project Update 13

    ’96 TYC Participant Colleges 14

    Freedom of Movement - Eldon Eckard 15

    Fall 1997 TYC Physics Workshops/ Conference Schedule 16

     

    Winter 1997/98 CaFD Newsletter

    Introductory Physics Conference II(IPC2): Looking at Electricity and Magnetism. - Tom L. O’Kuma 1

    Introductory Physics Conference III(IPC3): Waves 1

    Designing a More Inclusive Curriculum for Introductory College Physics 2

    Susie Evers

    Introductory College Physics: Twenty&emdash;First Century (IPC/21) - Alexander Dickinson 4

    IPC 2 Group Projects 5

    Electric Fields Conceptual Exercise - Nancy Bryant, Sally Heath, Bill Gene Smith, and Dennis Van Swol 7

    IPC 2 Participants (’97) 8

    IPC 2 Invited Presenters (’97) 8

    IPC 2 Pre-Conference Materials (’97) 8

    Transfer of Charge in Conductors - Jim Gundlach, Bruce Kaasa, Umesh Pandey, and Myra West 9

    ’97 TYC Physics Workshop Participant Colleges 10

    Electric Fields and Potentials- Robert Johnson, Beta Keramati, Clement Lam, and Sherry Svarda 11

    The Abstractness of the Concept of Magnetic Flux - Susie Evers, Nick Nicholson, and David Mills 12

    Faraday’s Law - Davene Eyers, Mary Beth Monroe, and Mickey Odom 13

    Magnetic Field near a Long Current Carrying Wire & Ampere’s Law - Chad Davies, Butch Diesslin, Marv Nelson, and Gordon Sheppard 14

    Potential & Potential Difference - Alex Dickinson, Cathy Ezrailson, Marie Plumb, and David Ting 15

    1998 TYC Physics Workshops Schedule 16

    Summer 1999 CaFD Newsletter

    Overview of the 3rd Introductory Physics Conference (IPC 3): Waves&emdash;Sound, Light, and Matter 1

    Group Projects at the 3rd Introductory Physics Conference on Waves - Bill Hogan 1

    Techniques for Tunes -Todd Leif, Deb Lohr, H.C. Snyder, and Laurie Thomas 3

    Distinguishing Between Velocity of Propagation and Velocity of Particles of the Medium for Mechanical Waves - David Duluk, David Kardelis, Umesh Pandey, and Herman Trivilino 3

    Two-Slit and Multiple Slit Interference Patterns -Emile Bernard, Chad Davies, Butch Diesslin, and David Mills 13

    Understanding the Doppler Effect -Paul Haar, Bill Hogan, Earl McMurry, Sherry Svarda, and Dennis Van Swol 13

    Detecting Electromagnetic Waves -Howard Balfour, Joe Krivicich, Nick Nicholson, Marie Plumb, and Bob Speers 13

    Fundamental Concepts of standing Waves - Nancy Bryant, Bruce Kaasa, Mickey Odom, and Myra West 14

    LEDs, Lasers, and Solid State Diodes - Alexander K. Dickison 2

    Physics and the Atomic Structure of Matter -David Mills 4

    eMBL: Online Collaborative Science 6

    Using Ranking Tasks for Assessment of Critical Thinking - Darwin R. Church 5

    IPC 3 Participants (’98) 8

    IPC 3 Invited Presenters (’98) 8

    IPC 3 Pre-Conference Materials (’98) 8

    Pre-Conference Wave worksheet 9

    ’98 TYC Physics Workshop Participant Colleges 10

    Integration of VQM into a Community College Physics Course: A Field Testers Perspective - Todd R. Lief 11

    Vernier ULI USB Port Update 12

    Gravitation: A Conceptual Exercise - Chad Davies 15

    PASCO’s USB Port Update 16

    Summer 2000 CaFD Newsletter

    IPC 4 Overview 1

    IPC 4 Group Project Reports -Tom O’Kuma 1

    Web Page Support for Project Based Instruction - Alex Azima, Chad Davies, John Giffith, and Paul Marquard 2

    JiTT for GEO -Oscar Grant and Todd Leif 3

    "A List of Physlets - Bob Eshelman, Dierk Hofteiter, Bill Keller, and Alex Neubert 4

    Kinematics Using Modified Physlets - Don Anderson, Bill Hogan, and Mark Winslow 6

    How to Use Physlets/ JiTT as Warm-Up on Blackboard.com - Beta Keramati, Bill Gene Smith, H.C. Snyder, and Bo Wessell 6

    Welcome to Physics Just in Time Teaching Warm-Up Questions - Emile Bernard, Bob Henscheid, Nick Nicholson 7

    Momentum Exercise - Mark Bunge, Butch Diesslin, Carlos La Rosa 7

    Conceptual Physics on Blackboard vs. Homebrew Conceptual Physics - Martin Mason and Ashok Vaseashta 8

    Technical Physics Problems - Ali Yazdi 8

    ACE: After Class Evaluation A New Feedback Loop for Just-in-Time Teaching -Todd R. Leif 9

    IPC 4 Participants 11

    IPC 4 Presenters 11

    IPC 4 Schedule 11

    VideoPoint Activities for the Conceptual Physics Student - Chuck Stone 12

    Impact of IPC 4 - Beta Keramati 14

    Elements of an Interactive Synchronous Internet Course - David G. Iadevaia 15

    Some Design Ideas and Suggestions for Web Based Courses - Paul Marquard 16

    Upcoming TYC Physics Workshops 18

    Spring 2007 CaFD Newsletter

    Experience-Based Tips and Advice for Curriculum Development - Alex Dickison 1

    Implementing Interactive Lecture Demonstrations (ILDs) with a Classroom Response System - Paul Williams 2

    Use of Wireless Polling Devices in Physics - J.B. Sharma 9

    New TYC and HS Workshops - Tom O'Kuma & Dwain Desbien 10

    Implementing an Active Learning Environment in Introductory Physics - Paul D'Alessandris 11

    Virtual TIPERs - Karim Diff 13

    Physics Assessment Tools with JJC Data - Curtis Hieggelke 14

    SPIRALPhysics Active Learning - Paul D'Alessandris 15

    E & M Ranking Tasks Implementation - Euguenia Peterson 19

    E & M TIPER Projects 20

    MEAT (Mechanics & Electrostatics Assessment Tool) - Steve Kanim, Curtis Hieggelke, & David Maloney 21

    TIPERs 22

    LabVIEW/LabPro Implementation - Jon Anderson 23

    Marv Nelson 23

    TIPERs Impact at JJC - Curtis Hieggelke 24

    1999-2005 Participant Major Projects for the Physics Workshop Projects for the 21st Century 25

    1999-2005 Local Workshop Hosts 27

    Physics Workshops 2002-2005 28

    2002-2005 Workshop Participants by State 30

    2002-2005 Workshop Sites Map 33

    2002-2005 Distribution Graph of Participants 33

    Physics Workshops 1999-2001 34

    1999-2001 Workshop Participants by State 35

    1999-2001 Workshop Sites Map 36

    1999-2001 Participant States Map 36

    Physics Workshops 1991-2005 37

    1991-2005 Workshop Sites Map 37

    1991-2005 Distribution Bar Graphs 38